Offering free things to your website visitors is one  marketing method that often results in a lot of sales.  Free courses that are delivered via email are very
popular, and people sign up for such courses on a  regular basis to learn more about a topic of interest  to them. These courses are best maintained and
delivered with the use of autoresponders.

An autoresponder can be set up to send out a  series of lessons for an email course. The lessons  can be set for distribution at specific intervals. You
determine how often the lessons for the course are  sent to the people who have signed up for it. Email  courses are very different from traditional courses,
web based courses, or any other type of course.

There is no student and instructor interaction. The  instructor writes the information out, puts each  lesson in an autoresponder series, sets the timing
for the lessons, and the rest is automated. You can  opt to have lessons delivered daily, every other day,  every three days, or any other time frame that you  think works best for your email students.

Email courses are commonly used to sell products and services. For instance, if you sell widgets, you  might develop a course that teaches people how to
use widgets or how to care for their widget. Experts  agree that an email course can be written for  almost any product that you can imagine – if you
put enough thought into it.

Start by determining what your course will be about,  and how long it should be. If the course should be  delivered every other day for two weeks, you know  that you would need seven lessons. Write the  lessons, and load them in the autoresponder. Set  the interval for each lesson, which in this case would
be 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13.

This means that the first lesson would be delivered  one day after the person has requested the course,  and the second lesson would be delivered three days  after the person has requested the course, and so
on. The interval for each lesson is set for the  number of days after the person has signed up  Make sure that everything is spelled right, and that
your sentences are grammatically correct. You  want the lessons to look and sound as professional  as possible.

Next, simply advertise the email address that will  activate the autoresponder. Make sure that you run a test first, sending each lesson to yourself. This will
allow you to see what your email students will see  when they sign up!